Call for Papers
DAARC 2011 The 8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium
Faro, Portugal
hosted by the University of Lisbon
October 6-7, 2011
Anaphora is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines such as theoretical, corpus and computational linguistics, philosophy of language, cognitive science, psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. On the other hand, the correct interpretation of anaphora has played an increasingly vital role in real-world natural language processing applications, including machine translation, automatic abstracting, information extraction and question answering. As a result, the processing of anaphora has become one of the most productive topics of multi- and inter-disciplinary research, and has enjoyed increased interest and attention in recent years.
In this context, the Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquia (DAARC) have emerged as the major regular forum for presentation and discussion of the best research results in this area. Initiated in 1996 at Lancaster University and taken over in 2002 by the University of Lisbon, and moving out of Europe for the first time in 2009, to Goa, India, the DAARC series established itself as a specialised and competitive forum for the presentation of the latest results on anaphora processing, ranging from theoretical linguistic approaches through psycholinguistic and cognitive work to corpus studies and computational modelling.
The eighth Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC2011) will take place in Faro, Portugal, in October 6-7, 2011. We would like to invite anyone currently researching in the areas of discourse anaphora and anaphor resolution, from any methodological perspective or framework, to submit a paper to DAARC2011, including submissions presenting a thorough discussion of a system and results obtained in the context of competitive evaluations, with general interest or impact for the progress of the area.
The closing date for submission is June 1, 2011. Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 15, 2011. Final versions of accepted papers to be included in the proceedings are expected by September 15, 2011. A selection of best papers will be published by Springer, at the ISI indexed LNAI-Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series. The remainder papers will be published in the conference Proceedings with an ISBN printed by Edições Colibri.
Submissions (extended abstracts) must be anonymous and at most 3 pages in length. For further details on the submission procedure and other relevant info on the colloquium visit its website at:
Invited speakers
| Maria Piñango, Yale University, USA (personal page) |
| Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (personal page) |
Program committee
| Sergey Avrutin, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Sivaji Bandopadhyaya, Jadavpur University, India |
| Patricio Martinez Barco, University of Alicante, Spain |
| Peter Bosch, University of Osnabrueck, Germany |
| António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
| Francis Cornish, University Toulouse-Le Mirail, France |
| Dan Cristea, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania |
| Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia |
| Jeanette Gundel, University Minnesota, USA |
| Laura Hasler, University of Strathclyde, UK |
| Lars Hellan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
| Iris Hendrickx, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
| Graeme Hirst, University Toronto, Canada |
| Anke Holler, University of Goettingen, Germany |
| Véronique Hoste, University College Gent, Belgium |
| Elsi Kaiser, University Southern California, USA |
| Andrew Kehler, University of California, San Diego, USA |
| Roger Kibble, Goldsmiths University of London, UK |
| Andrej Kibrik, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia |
| Sobha L., AU-KBC Research Centre, India |
| José Leitão, University of Coimbra, Portugal |
| Fons Maes, Tilburg University, The Netherlands |
| Ruslan Mitkov, University Wolverhampton, UK |
| Kavi Narayana Murthy, University of Hyderabad, India |
| Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA |
| Constantin Orasan, University Wolverhampton, UK |
| Maria Mercedes Piñango, Yale University, USA |
| Massimo Poesio, University of Essex, UK |
| Georgiana Puscasu, University Wolverhampton, UK |
| Marta Recasens, University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Eric Reuland, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Jeffrey Runner, University of Rochester, USA |
| Petra Schumacher, University of Mainz, Germany |
| Veselin Stoyanov, Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Roland Stuckardt, University Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Joel Tetreault, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA |
| Renata Vieira, Pontifícia Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| Jos van Berkum, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Klaus von Heusinger, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
Organisers:
| António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
| Iris Hendrickx, University of Lisbon, CLUL, Portugal |
| Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK |
| Sobha L., Anna University Chennai, India |